Nina Simone's Birth Chart
Nina Simone was born on February 21, 1933 in Tryon, NC. The chart has the Sun in Pisces and the Moon in Capricorn or Aquarius. No birth time is on record for Nina Simone, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
| Born | February 21, 1933 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Tryon, NC |
Nina Simone's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Pisces: What Moves Through You
Your sense of self has soft edges. You take on the mood of the room, the pain of a friend, the tone of whatever you are reading, and you are often not sure which feelings were yours. People experience you as kind, imaginative and hard to pin down, and they tell you things they tell no one else. Your vitality comes from the inner life, from music, faith or art, and drains in harsh light and hard schedules. You shine by letting something larger move through you.
No birth time is on record for Nina Simone, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
Planet positions in Nina Simone's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 2°08′ to 3°08′ |
| Moon | Capricorn or Aquarius | 19°48′ to 3°46′ |
| Mercury | Pisces | 12°57′ to 14°46′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 17°12′ to 18°26′ |
| Mars (retrograde) | Virgo | 14°09′ to 13°47′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Virgo | 20°23′ to 20°16′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 10°03′ to 10°10′ |
| Uranus | Aries | 20°40′ to 20°42′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Virgo | 9°00′ to 8°58′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Cancer | 21°35′ to 21°34′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Pisces | 7°46′ to 7°46′ |
| Chiron | Taurus | 23°48′ to 23°49′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting nine planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 3, Air 2, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 2, Fixed 2, Mutable 5.
A mutable emphasis
A mutable emphasis makes you adaptable and flexible: you adjust easily, juggle change, and thrive on variety and versatility.
The tightest aspects in Nina Simone's chart
- Mercury opposite Mars, orb 1°13′
- Neptune opposite North Node, orb 1°14′
- Jupiter sextile Pluto, orb 1°19′
- Pluto sextile Chiron, orb 2°15′
- Venus sextile Uranus, orb 3°28′
- Jupiter trine Chiron, orb 3°33′
- Mars conjunct Neptune, orb 5°09′
- Sun conjunct North Node, orb 5°38′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury opposite Mars: Plan Versus Charge
Every impulse to move meets a voice asking whether it's been thought through. Both are right, and picking a permanent winner wrecks you: all analysis and nothing starts, all action and you keep repeating avoidable mistakes. Held apart on purpose, one supplies the strategy and the other supplies the strike.
Neptune opposite North Node: Dissolve Or Advance
You live between wanting to disappear and needing to arrive. Devotion, art, compassion, and the pull toward the formless stand directly across from a growth direction that keeps asking for a next step. This works when both stay whole and separate; collapse them into one and you get a spiritual path that never goes anywhere.
Jupiter sextile Pluto: Digging With Optimism
You can go into heavy material without drowning in it, because your sense of the bigger story stays online while you're down there. This shows up as research stamina, an appetite for the hidden layer of a subject, an ability to sit with someone's worst chapter and still see a shape to it. It stays quiet unless you actually go digging.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Nina Simone's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.